340 undecillion, 282 decillion, 366 nonillion, 920 octillion, 938 septillion, 463 sextillion, 463 quintillion, 374 quadrillion, 607 trillion, 431 billion, 768 million, 211 thousand and 456
Say what?
Yes that is how many IP address we have now. After the upgrade form IPv4 to IPv6; we went from 4 Million to that HUGE number.
Why should we get excited about IPv6, it isn’t like an Apple release, those are really exciting. IPv6 will affect each one of us that use the Internet. When you use the Internet to search for something what do you type?
domainname.com
What is the beginning of the URL that you use to have to type in and it wasn’t automatic.
www.domainname.com
Go back a little bit more.
http://
Yes that is what you would type. What does that stand for? Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. IPv6 Is a version of the Internet Protocol. IPv4 will still be around for a while but since the launch of IPv6 we are starting the transfer of all website over and devices that access the Internet will be to follow the standards of IPv6.
Just like you would update you computer the Internet itself needs updating every now and then. The two main reasons for updating the Internet protocol is efficiency and security. The way data is transferred became simplified and in return that will speed up the speed of the Internet. Along with more security of that data since IPv6 was build mainly on the security in minds.
All devices are going to start the transfer over to IPv6. IPv4 was before we had so many devices that would be linked to the Internet like computer, phone, ipod, radio, and tv. IPv6 makes maintaining the Internet with all the devices easy along with having the devices getting online easily and auto configure those devices most of the time.